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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHIPPING companies will be able to source information about European Union research projects focusing on the computerisation of maritime transport systems, via a new Internet site. Managed by Brussels’ SWAN project, the site includes information on maritime research, technology and development projects funded by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Programme (IST).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union countries are still achieving economic growth at the cost of exhausting the world’s natural energy and mineral resources, a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed. It commissioned Germany’s Wuppertal Institute to use the recently-developed Total Material Requirement (TMR) indicator to calculate the EU’s overall burden on the environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNET marketplaces are springing up for a variety of products and services, but two German companies hope to corner the market in an unlikely e-commerce supply, namely fork-lift and warehouse trucks. The European Commission has approved a proposal by German truck manufacturers Linde AG and Jungheinrich AG to set up a European Union Internet market place for second-hand industrial trucks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN IT companies will be able to apply for grants from a budget of Euro 3.6 billion, which has been earmarked for information society research from 2002-2006, if new proposals from the European Commission for a new framework research programme, are agreed by EU ministers and the European Parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a strong attack on the Council of Europe’s draft convention on cybercrime, a political move that could lead to delays in its adoption and which will almost certainly damage its reputation.

In a paper using unusually strong language for diplomatic circles, the EU’s Working Party of Data Protection accuses the draft of being “too vague and confusing” and of threatening “fundamental rights and freedoms.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THIRD generation mobile service providers should be encouraged to share infrastructure whilst they exploit their often expensively won licences, according to the Communication from the European Commission, called The Introduction of Third Generation Mobile Communications in the European Union: State of Play and the Way Forward.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union steering group has been launched to help protecting the European single currency, the Euro, against counterfeiting. It includes representatives of the Commission, the ECB and Europol. It will try to promote co-ordination between these bodies by overseeing their anti-counterfeiting work, developing a common strategy and proposing a series of concrete priority measures.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSED new European legislation that would make it compulsory for motor vehicle registration documents to carry an adjective and alphanumeric code specifying the colour of the original paint is not expected to cause major problems in the UK paint or motor industries.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has announced that it will accept the ruling of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, which found that Brussels had broken international rules on anti-dumping duties in a case regarding Indian bed linen imports.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has lost its appeal at the World Trade Organisation against last year’s disputes panel ruling, which censured its imposition of anti-dumping duties on cotton-type bed linen from India. The Appellate Body of the WTO disputes procedure has agreed that the EU did erect duties via procedures that broke international anti-dumping regulations.…